South Africa - Prevalence of severe wasting
Prevalence of severe wasting, weight for height, female (% of children under 5)
Definition: Prevalence of severe wasting, female, is the proportion of girls under age 5 whose weight for height is more than three standard deviations below the median for the international reference population ages 0-59.
Source: World Health Organization, Global Database on Child Growth and Malnutrition. Country-level data are unadjusted data from national surveys, and thus may not be comparable across countries.
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| Year | Value |
|---|---|
| 2008 | 2.70 |
| 2015 | 0.90 |
| 2016 | 0.40 |
| 2017 | 1.40 |
Prevalence of severe wasting, weight for height, male (% of children under 5)
Definition: Prevalence of severe wasting, male, is the proportion of boys under age 5 whose weight for height is more than three standard deviations below the median for the international reference population ages 0-59.
Source: World Health Organization, Global Database on Child Growth and Malnutrition. Country-level data are unadjusted data from national surveys, and thus may not be comparable across countries.
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| Year | Value |
|---|---|
| 2008 | 2.00 |
| 2015 | 1.80 |
| 2016 | 0.70 |
| 2017 | 2.00 |
Prevalence of severe wasting, weight for height (% of children under 5)
Definition: Prevalence of severe wasting is the proportion of children under age 5 whose weight for height is more than three standard deviations below the median for the international reference population ages 0-59.
Source: UNICEF, WHO, World Bank: Joint child malnutrition estimates (JME). Aggregation is based on UNICEF, WHO, and the World Bank harmonized dataset (adjusted, comparable data) and methodology.
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| Year | Value |
|---|---|
| 2008 | 2.40 |
| 2015 | 1.30 |
| 2016 | 0.60 |
| 2017 | 1.70 |
Classification
Topic: Health Indicators
Sub-Topic: Nutrition
